If the password can't be changed, then the corollary is that biometrics are no good for authentication; however, they excel at providing a convenient method of tracking/auditing provided that one cares little for security. If I were the marketing guy, I'd pitch it that we're all willing to trade convenience for security - forget about the privacy issues.
Hate to break it to ya, sonny, but the rest of the world is the reason that the US is finally getting their ball in the game. It ain't America that's hurting because of IPv4, it's China, Japan, Russia, and the world at large: demand for IPv6 in the US is low because Americans have better than 80% of all the IPv4 addresses.
Obviously, GNU bashing abounds, but only in the world of end-users. I view this as a good thing.
Working in an environment that is purely Red Hat-based on the desktop, with significant Red Hat server infrastructure, I can only applaud any efforts Open Source guys are making to clear up the mess that is obviously present. No, it's not going to happen overnight - Just as the company I work for is not going to replace all it's investment in tech support talent overnight.
Unfortunately, being a GNU developer does not make you a usability expert. As usual, Xfree (and anything using it) will continue to allow simple flaws, such as buffer overruns, into their code, allowing root access to idiots - but that's the least of users' worries on an OS as close to UNIX as humanly possible, without infringing on any of SCO's dubious rights. Having a group of people who focus on Open Source usability would be, without a doubt, a VERY good thing. While this may not be the potentially rigorous design/interface review that proprietary software gets, since people *do* pay for proprietary, after all, it's better than what presently happens - ie, absolutely ZERO and intelligent design or consistency in user interface elements. Why don't Open Source zealots just clone OSX? Save some time on the design, and make things nicer for everybody.
As for the issue of scapegoats...from an external point of view, getting Linux people to admit to Xfree's abysmal GUI latency, AND do anything to fix it, can be a difficult job at the best of times. Internally, if a group of interface "experts" fail to recognise flaws in a piece of code...then surely they are failing at their job? Strangely enough, BeOS had this issue nailed down *years* ago, but still OSS lags behind 1996 technology.
Finally, there's been a lot of flaming about the fact that there's another window manager coming out daily from the Free Software crowd. I welcome all of them, in parallel, as moving towards sorting out some of the many issues they have. The less time I have to spend working on patching buggy GNU or other free software, the happier I will be.
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Excuse me, but you've accidentally stumbled onto slashdot, where everybody claims to run Linux and posts compulsively 22 hours a day espousing Free Software, which nobody actually uses. Time here is worthless. Please take your posting elsewhere if you want to make inflammatory statements.
hate to break it, but DivX 5 is NOT a quick fix in any sense of the word. It's slooooow to encode with, especially when multipassing. SBC is the fastest to encode with.
as much as I'd like to believe that Linux is better than it really is, the truth is preferable to self-delusion. I can see that you, however, are a true Open Sores zealot; as such, it is only to be expected that you cannot spell, and that any spell-checking software you might use is broken. You probably don't bathe, and you don't have any friends of the opposite sex. How do I know this, you ask?
how about a few reasons not to switch: poor (read: nonexistent) power management. Good bye, laptop battery! Nobody at my local LUG had an answer for this one, nor does anybody in the Open Sores community. Linux power management is a myth.
Xfree86. "You will envy the dead." Succinctly spoken. Ever wonder why your desktop always crashes? It could be Konq/GAIM/MPlayer/whatever, but it's just as likely Xfree. Since amateur software doesn't have a focal point of accountability, does it really make any difference to speculate? Probably not. Just blame X.
"Desktop Environments" like KDE/GNOME, or the ironically named Enlightenment, provide maximum bloat to fill up every available crevice in your RAM.
Games. Unless you like compiling software - and I, personally, would rather be playing my games - then Linux isn't for you. Want native Linux games? the last one to make 'em went belly up, and nobody else wants a piece of this one-percenter market where only the hardest-core freeloaders hang out. Then there's WineX.. good grief. What are these people thinking??
RPM. What a joke. The five people out there who use Debian or have APT can ignore this one, but if you've made it past the installer then you already know far worse about Linux than this list can convey... text mode installation, after all, was a relic of the nineties. Have we not advanced since then?
Lack of multimedia creation apps. Where's a good audio sequencer? ACID Pro clone? Where's the Vegas Video clone? SoundForge anything? Photoshop? The GiMP doesn't cut it, as anybody who cares to investigate will find in a hurry. The desktop dream is a dream, guys.. get with it. Stop pretending that your hobby OS has practical applications for society at large!
Bloatware. Has anybody else noticed that EVERY Linux download is larger than the equivalent Win32 download? Take a look at OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc. Why is this? WHo cares. Linux encourages apps to bloat, and that's just how it is.
Nasty driver installation problems. Ever tried to install a module, then found out that you had to recompile all its dependencies to make it work? Nobody but a developer should ever have to compile software for themselves. Everybody else has better things to do than waste time on compilation.
I think that takes care of most of it... there's obviously more, but the numbers don't lie: Linux owns 1% of the systems extant because its failings are multifarious and variegated beyond belief.. take a look at the atrociously-designed device namespace for a further clue. Anyways. Thanks for reading this list, you've really made my day! --p00p
let's see... your country 'elected' a terrorist bent on the destruction of women and children at great cost of life to American soldiers.. he can't pronounce common English words, despite that English is ostensibly his mother tongue.... the DMCA effectively revokes 'free speech' yet Americans in general seem not to care beyond a not-so-vocal minority.. the PATRIOT Act effectively allows your Gestapo (or equivalent - is that the FBI?) to arrest and detain any 'citizen' without trial indefinitely.. I'd say your leaders aren't the only stupid ones, friend. Ouch.
you obviously have no sense of "right" and "wrong" buddy. Copyright infringement isn't wrong. Since when, exactly, does an artist deserve money every time somebody downloads a song? Since never. That's just common sense. The whole model of intellectual 'property' is against the grain of common sense, and should be abolished. Nobody 'owns' information unless they keep it a fricking secret, and nobody deserves money every time a book is read, a song is played, or my computer gets switched on.
I realize that this all goes against the grain of your American thinking, and clearly goes against your ridiculous American laws; however, you people think it's OK to terrorize foreign countries every time somebody doesn't kowtow to whichever retard is currently in charge - even a tux-and-cowboy-boots wearing double-speaker who can't read an expensive speech to save his life.
Remember when America financed al-Quaeda? Poured money into bin Laden's coffers? I do, and so does everybody else in the world with an inkling of world politics. Watch Rambo III, fast forward to the credits where the film is dedicated to "the brave freedom-fighters in Afghanistan," a reference to the friendly relations with Osama and crew - the way it used to be, man. Remember when Poindexter and his little faggoty butt-buddy Oliver North barely escaped jail (on technicalities, mind you) when they provided weapons (laundered, mind you, through the Iranians) to Nicaraguan terrorists? Notice that Poindexter is currently robbing you Yanks of your rights, think about the DMCA and the PATRIOT Act before you answer me. Remember who put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place, because he looked like a good puppet at the time?
You Yanks have it all backwards, from copyright to terrorism.
You and your bovine idiot mentality bother me something fierce. Fuck off, cowboy.
this timely bit of wisdom was brought you by p00p! Breakin' it down for the common man since the late 70's, baby.
"keeping the engine and codebase lean" is hardly the case here. What they're trying to do, amigo, is actually trim the fat for what appears to be the very first time. Luckily, the Phoenix project has been working hard at this very thing for a long time now - Mozilla won't be started from scratch again.
As a side note, smooth scrolling after middle-clicking empty space works just fine on Phoenix, whereas it never has worked in Mozilla. Nice.
how about the fact that X is slow and guarantees high GUI latencies. Also, why not make the device namespace tolerably sensible? That's surely a good thing for desktop Linux.. then after that's all sorted, how about hot-pluggable USB support (ie, while Linux is running, have it detect devices and load drivers) that works.
While we're on that tangent, I think it would be nice to have modular drivers that don't require a kernel recompile. I understand that loadable modules are available, but the kernel must support the module extensions and thus, still needs a recompile. Of course, to do that, you'd have to revamp the entire driver model and structure of device support. Still curious as to why there ought to be a separation of Server and Desktop Linux? How about this: Linux won't matter on 98% of desktops until the above actually happens, and maybe not even then. Every day it stays with its Unix roots is another day that it remains irrelevant to the average user.
technically, you aren't paying the RIAA anything - YET. Of the 30-50 million dollars collected so far by the CPCC, none has been paid out. The CPCC is a private organization, by the way, so it suffers little government regulation. Of course, we Canadians have already paid for the damned music, we might as well download it.
green button, yellow.. i returned the thing a couple months ago. It ran like a dog, and the inconsistent resizing bothered me. No other OS does this; hell, even Linux has some better window sizing behaviours, and the KDE kicker dock doesn't resize, or need to be anchored, or have little icons that jump around seemingly to random positions depending on how I open an app. However, none of this really matters since I switched right back to Windows. I'll give Mac a chance again someday, probably around OSXI (or whatever they call the major number).
I bought a Powerbook, since Apple advertised it as a complete replacement for my old Armada M300. However. After a week of waiting for the day when OSX would respond within a reasonable time to my commands, I gave it a rest. OSX bugs me. That stupid resizing dock thing makes it impossible to consistently "maximize" my windows - press the yellow button and it goes to an arbitrary size based on whatever the dock happens to be (or something else I haven't quite figured out). Plus all those Option-whatever commands seem to be different in every (built-in Apple) application.. i mean, where's the consistency? Where's the pride in making something "user-friendly" that they're all barking about? Apple took back my Powerbook, thankfully, and even paid for shipping too - I guess that's because I got robbed with a stinking G4. Plus Office Romance.. what a joke! You know, when a company advertises
then it's completely reasonable to expect that very thing, hey? I still feel totally gypped. OSX looks so great on the website, but the reality is something else. I'm never buying into that "switch" nonsense ever again - even for WinXP. Could write a whole book on what's wrong with that piece of crap. Sticking to Win2000 forever, it looks like.
The most recent marketing research indicates that a move towards more or less forgiving terminology would be comparatively more endearing than those harsh syllables "dot net." The latest solutions scenario (remember, nobody sells products anymore - "solutions" only please) will be branded as a "new way of doing things," more specifically, a "better way of doing things."
Just look at that stupid website linked in the story.. If people want screaming webpages and shoshkeles, they can have them; however, Flash is just too damned intrusive and annoying to be worth the hassle for me. There might be a place for it, but I haven't seen one yet.
Anybody else have problems with Flash? Try the the Proxomitron. It's free!
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If the password can't be changed, then the corollary is that biometrics are no good for authentication; however, they excel at providing a convenient method of tracking/auditing provided that one cares little for security.
If I were the marketing guy, I'd pitch it that we're all willing to trade convenience for security - forget about the privacy issues.
nonono it's "Blame Bash and Microsoft Day" until I can get Red Hat working again
... and then the rest of the world..
Hate to break it to ya, sonny, but the rest of the world is the reason that the US is finally getting their ball in the game. It ain't America that's hurting because of IPv4, it's China, Japan, Russia, and the world at large: demand for IPv6 in the US is low because Americans have better than 80% of all the IPv4 addresses.
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Obviously, GNU bashing abounds, but only in the world of end-users. I view this as a good thing.
Working in an environment that is purely Red Hat-based on the desktop, with significant Red Hat server infrastructure, I can only applaud any efforts Open Source guys are making to clear up the mess that is obviously present. No, it's not going to happen overnight - Just as the company I work for is not going to replace all it's investment in tech support talent overnight.
Unfortunately, being a GNU developer does not make you a usability expert. As usual, Xfree (and anything using it) will continue to allow simple flaws, such as buffer overruns, into their code, allowing root access to idiots - but that's the least of users' worries on an OS as close to UNIX as humanly possible, without infringing on any of SCO's dubious rights. Having a group of people who focus on Open Source usability would be, without a doubt, a VERY good thing. While this may not be the potentially rigorous design/interface review that proprietary software gets, since people *do* pay for proprietary, after all, it's better than what presently happens - ie, absolutely ZERO and intelligent design or consistency in user interface elements. Why don't Open Source zealots just clone OSX? Save some time on the design, and make things nicer for everybody.
As for the issue of scapegoats...from an external point of view, getting Linux people to admit to Xfree's abysmal GUI latency, AND do anything to fix it, can be a difficult job at the best of times. Internally, if a group of interface "experts" fail to recognise flaws in a piece of code...then surely they are failing at their job? Strangely enough, BeOS had this issue nailed down *years* ago, but still OSS lags behind 1996 technology.
Finally, there's been a lot of flaming about the fact that there's another window manager coming out daily from the Free Software crowd. I welcome all of them, in parallel, as moving towards sorting out some of the many issues they have. The less time I have to spend working on patching buggy GNU or other free software, the happier I will be.
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Excuse me, but you've accidentally stumbled onto slashdot, where everybody claims to run Linux and posts compulsively 22 hours a day espousing Free Software, which nobody actually uses. Time here is worthless. Please take your posting elsewhere if you want to make inflammatory statements.
no, you've got it all backwards. That memo was from George W. Bush . :P
hate to break it, but DivX 5 is NOT a quick fix in any sense of the word. It's slooooow to encode with, especially when multipassing. SBC is the fastest to encode with.
as much as I'd like to believe that Linux is better than it really is, the truth is preferable to self-delusion. I can see that you, however, are a true Open Sores zealot; as such, it is only to be expected that you cannot spell, and that any spell-checking software you might use is broken. You probably don't bathe, and you don't have any friends of the opposite sex.
How do I know this, you ask?
how about a few reasons not to switch:
poor (read: nonexistent) power management. Good bye, laptop battery! Nobody at my local LUG had an answer for this one, nor does anybody in the Open Sores community. Linux power management is a myth.
Xfree86. "You will envy the dead." Succinctly spoken. Ever wonder why your desktop always crashes? It could be Konq/GAIM/MPlayer/whatever, but it's just as likely Xfree. Since amateur software doesn't have a focal point of accountability, does it really make any difference to speculate? Probably not. Just blame X.
"Desktop Environments" like KDE/GNOME, or the ironically named Enlightenment, provide maximum bloat to fill up every available crevice in your RAM.
Games. Unless you like compiling software - and I, personally, would rather be playing my games - then Linux isn't for you. Want native Linux games? the last one to make 'em went belly up, and nobody else wants a piece of this one-percenter market where only the hardest-core freeloaders hang out. Then there's WineX.. good grief. What are these people thinking??
RPM. What a joke. The five people out there who use Debian or have APT can ignore this one, but if you've made it past the installer then you already know far worse about Linux than this list can convey... text mode installation, after all, was a relic of the nineties. Have we not advanced since then?
Lack of multimedia creation apps. Where's a good audio sequencer? ACID Pro clone? Where's the Vegas Video clone? SoundForge anything? Photoshop? The GiMP doesn't cut it, as anybody who cares to investigate will find in a hurry. The desktop dream is a dream, guys.. get with it. Stop pretending that your hobby OS has practical applications for society at large!
Bloatware. Has anybody else noticed that EVERY Linux download is larger than the equivalent Win32 download? Take a look at OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc. Why is this? WHo cares. Linux encourages apps to bloat, and that's just how it is.
Nasty driver installation problems. Ever tried to install a module, then found out that you had to recompile all its dependencies to make it work? Nobody but a developer should ever have to compile software for themselves. Everybody else has better things to do than waste time on compilation.
I think that takes care of most of it... there's obviously more, but the numbers don't lie: Linux owns 1% of the systems extant because its failings are multifarious and variegated beyond belief.. take a look at the atrociously-designed device namespace for a further clue. Anyways. Thanks for reading this list, you've really made my day! --p00p
let's see... your country 'elected' a terrorist bent on the destruction of women and children at great cost of life to American soldiers.. he can't pronounce common English words, despite that English is ostensibly his mother tongue.... the DMCA effectively revokes 'free speech' yet Americans in general seem not to care beyond a not-so-vocal minority.. the PATRIOT Act effectively allows your Gestapo (or equivalent - is that the FBI?) to arrest and detain any 'citizen' without trial indefinitely.. I'd say your leaders aren't the only stupid ones, friend. Ouch.
you obviously have no sense of "right" and "wrong" buddy.
Copyright infringement isn't wrong. Since when, exactly, does an artist deserve money every time somebody downloads a song? Since never. That's just common sense. The whole model of intellectual 'property' is against the grain of common sense, and should be abolished.
Nobody 'owns' information unless they keep it a fricking secret, and nobody deserves money every time a book is read, a song is played, or my computer gets switched on.
I realize that this all goes against the grain of your American thinking, and clearly goes against your ridiculous American laws; however, you people think it's OK to terrorize foreign countries every time somebody doesn't kowtow to whichever retard is currently in charge - even a tux-and-cowboy-boots wearing double-speaker who can't read an expensive speech to save his life.
Remember when America financed al-Quaeda? Poured money into bin Laden's coffers? I do, and so does everybody else in the world with an inkling of world politics. Watch Rambo III, fast forward to the credits where the film is dedicated to "the brave freedom-fighters in Afghanistan," a reference to the friendly relations with Osama and crew - the way it used to be, man. Remember when Poindexter and his little faggoty butt-buddy Oliver North barely escaped jail (on technicalities, mind you) when they provided weapons (laundered, mind you, through the Iranians) to Nicaraguan terrorists? Notice that Poindexter is currently robbing you Yanks of your rights, think about the DMCA and the PATRIOT Act before you answer me. Remember who put Saddam Hussein in power in the first place, because he looked like a good puppet at the time?
You Yanks have it all backwards, from copyright to terrorism.
You and your bovine idiot mentality bother me something fierce. Fuck off, cowboy.
this timely bit of wisdom was brought you by p00p!
Breakin' it down for the common man since the late 70's, baby.
"keeping the engine and codebase lean" is hardly the case here. What they're trying to do, amigo, is actually trim the fat for what appears to be the very first time. Luckily, the Phoenix project has been working hard at this very thing for a long time now - Mozilla won't be started from scratch again.
As a side note, smooth scrolling after middle-clicking empty space works just fine on Phoenix, whereas it never has worked in Mozilla. Nice.
I told my g/f that swallowing is good for shiny hair :D DAMN! That shit works, baby!
Man, you're really on the ball. I especially like the USB namespace implementation in "everything is a file" Linux ;)
Now, if somebody would come up with reliable, easy on-the-fly USB device detection and driver loading, we'd be set, eh?
how about the fact that X is slow and guarantees high GUI latencies. Also, why not make the device namespace tolerably sensible? That's surely a good thing for desktop Linux.. then after that's all sorted, how about hot-pluggable USB support (ie, while Linux is running, have it detect devices and load drivers) that works.
While we're on that tangent, I think it would be nice to have modular drivers that don't require a kernel recompile. I understand that loadable modules are available, but the kernel must support the module extensions and thus, still needs a recompile.
Of course, to do that, you'd have to revamp the entire driver model and structure of device support.
Still curious as to why there ought to be a separation of Server and Desktop Linux?
How about this: Linux won't matter on 98% of desktops until the above actually happens, and maybe not even then. Every day it stays with its Unix roots is another day that it remains irrelevant to the average user.
Hey! I know you! You're the guy who wrote WindowsXP, aren't ya..
technically, you aren't paying the RIAA anything - YET. Of the 30-50 million dollars collected so far by the CPCC, none has been paid out. The CPCC is a private organization, by the way, so it suffers little government regulation.
Of course, we Canadians have already paid for the damned music, we might as well download it.
green button, yellow.. i returned the thing a couple months ago. It ran like a dog, and the inconsistent resizing bothered me. No other OS does this; hell, even Linux has some better window sizing behaviours, and the KDE kicker dock doesn't resize, or need to be anchored, or have little icons that jump around seemingly to random positions depending on how I open an app. However, none of this really matters since I switched right back to Windows. I'll give Mac a chance again someday, probably around OSXI (or whatever they call the major number).
However. After a week of waiting for the day when OSX would respond within a reasonable time to my commands, I gave it a rest. OSX bugs me. That stupid resizing dock thing makes it impossible to consistently "maximize" my windows - press the yellow button and it goes to an arbitrary size based on whatever the dock happens to be (or something else I haven't quite figured out). Plus all those Option-whatever commands seem to be different in every (built-in Apple) application.. i mean, where's the consistency? Where's the pride in making something "user-friendly" that they're all barking about? Apple took back my Powerbook, thankfully, and even paid for shipping too - I guess that's because I got robbed with a stinking G4. Plus Office Romance.. what a joke! You know, when a company advertises then it's completely reasonable to expect that very thing, hey? I still feel totally gypped. OSX looks so great on the website, but the reality is something else. I'm never buying into that "switch" nonsense ever again - even for WinXP. Could write a whole book on what's wrong with that piece of crap. Sticking to Win2000 forever, it looks like.
I want to go double dragon style on Alex's girl, dawg. Game ain't worth a shit if I can't do that.
The most recent marketing research indicates that a move towards more or less forgiving terminology would be comparatively more endearing than those harsh syllables "dot net." The latest solutions scenario (remember, nobody sells products anymore - "solutions" only please) will be branded as a "new way of doing things," more specifically, a "better way of doing things."
I hope this clears things up for you!
I've already modded his washing machine +5 Clean-ass shit to ensure that sanitation is achieved. Good call bro.
Just look at that stupid website linked in the story.. If people want screaming webpages and shoshkeles, they can have them; however, Flash is just too damned intrusive and annoying to be worth the hassle for me. There might be a place for it, but I haven't seen one yet.
Anybody else have problems with Flash? Try the the Proxomitron. It's free!
do you know what sarcasm is? I'm really really curious.